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Posted by Jerry Stuckle on 10/31/06 03:12
Adam wrote:
> On Mon, 30 Oct 2006 13:46:40 -0500, Jerry Stuckle wrote:
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>
>>Adam wrote:
>>
>>>On Sun, 29 Oct 2006 14:45:50 -0500, Jerry Stuckle wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>>_mario.lat wrote:
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>>>My ISP offers joomla, mambo, postnuke & xoops so no worries about
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>I had the same problem!
>>>>>post nuke is too old!
>>>>>Mambo and Joombla are pratically the same. Mambo have some political
>>>>>problem.
>>>>>
>>>>>The best are Joomla and Xoops.
>>>>>
>>>>>Joombla is a bit easy for newby.
>>>>>
>>>>>If you are a programmer the best is Xoops.
>>>>>If you have to deal with permission Xoops can create groups and assign to
>>>>>the groups the right permission (Joomla is not so detailed with the
>>>>>permissions).
>>>>>Xoops is more flexible but a bit more complex.
>>>>>
>>>>>Joomla is more easier for beginner and you can find more
>>>>>beautifull grafical layout (but Xoops is more flexible and power to create
>>>>>your layout).
>>>>>
>>>>>If you are a bit skilled chose Xoops.
>>>>>If you are a "normal" user and you don't have to give different permission
>>>>>to more than two or trhee groups chose Joomla.
>>>>>Mario.
>>>>
>>>>I'm currently looking at similar ones for a blog on a customer site.
>>>>I've just started investigating Drupal. How does this compare?
>>>>
>>>>Basically they're looking for something which can be configured with
>>>>multiple security levels, etc. and customized to look like the rest of
>>>>their site. But once it's up and running they need something which
>>>>doesn't require a huge amount of maintenance.
>>>
>>>
>>>Joomla isn't too hot on multiple security levels & groups. Basically
>>>only four (front end) levels with ONE group for each. There are
>>>add-ons to get round this, but I haven't tried them.
>>>
>>>In particular, you can't assign users/groups to specific content :-((
>>>
>>>I may look at Drupal and XOOPS, based on comments here - for that kind
>>>of functionality. In most other respects I really like Joomla.
>>>
>>>Adam.
>>
>>Thanks for the info, Adam. I'm glad I asked; it looks like Joomla won't
>>work for what they need then.
>>
>>I appreciate the response!
>
>
> Forgot to add that there are also four similar levels for the [Joomla]
> Admin *back-end* - but again, there's no real granularity.
>
> In every other respects Joomla is an awesome package. It may still be
> worth considering. Here's info about the JACL extension that may give
> you what you need:
>
> http://extensions.joomla.org/component/option,com_mtree/task,viewlink/link_id,387/Itemid,35/
>
> "An ACL Enhancements component for Joomla! to enable you to create new
> user groups and/or new access levels. It also enables you to assign
> multiple access levels to user groups to make your website items' view
> access more controllable. Beside these, it also enhance com_content
> frontend ACL to allow add/edit/publish action control based on user
> groups for specified sections/categories/content items."
>
> Adam.
Adam,
Thanks for the info. I'll check out the extensions!
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